Thiruvananthapuram/Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao, who floated the idea of a non-Congress, non-BJP Front some time ago, met his Kerala counterpart Pinarayi Vijayan here Monday.
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday said his meeting with his Telangana counterpart K Chandrasekhara Rao was highly significant as regional parties will play a major role in the formation of a government after the Lok Sabha elections.
"A new government will come at the Centre which will follow federal system and secularism. The state will effectively lend support to anyone who supports the development of the state. Yesterday's meeting with KCR was highly significant," said Vijayan.
Rao is on a two-day visit to the state, along with his wife Shobha and their two grandchildren.
The meeting, which was held at the Cliff House, official residence of Kerala Chief Minister, was also attended by Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) MPs Santosh Kumar and Vinod Kumar.
Rao, who is staying at Kovalam, a famous tourist destination in the state, will travel to Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on May 8.
A statement from the Telangana Chief Minister's Office (CMO) earlier said, Rao will call on DMK president M K Stalin at his residence in Chennai on May 13. Rao will visit the Rameshwaram and Srirangam temples before returning home, the statement said.
Discussing the Rao-Stalin meeting, it said, "Both the leaders are likely to discuss current political scenario in the context of ongoing Parliamentary elections."
Meanwhile, the DMK has indicated that its party chief may not meet Rao as announced earlier on account of his 'busy' campaign schedule.
Learning about his visits to Kerala and Tamil Nadu, Karnataka chief minister H D Kumaraswamy also had a telephonic talk with Rao, the statement said.
The chief minister's daughter and sitting Nizamabad Lok Sabha member K Kavitha told PTI recently that regional parties not aligned with the Congress and the BJP will get 120-plus seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, and may hold the key to government formation.
She said the TRS is in touch with various parties not part of the BJP-led NDA and Congress-anchored UPA in its efforts to forge a federal front of regional outfits.
A federal front will take good shape after the Lok Sabha election results are out, Kavitha said.KCR to meet Kerala CM to discuss 'federal front'.
This will be KCR's first meeting with any leader of a non-BJP and non-Congress party since Lok Sabha elections began on April 10.
KCR, who mooted the idea of Federal Front in March last year as an alternative to both the BJP and the Congress, held talks with leaders of the Trinamool Congress, the Biju Janta Dal, the Samajwadi Party, the Janata Dal-S, and the DMK. He also invited the YSR Congress Party to join the proposed front.
The TRS chief is confident that non-BJP and non-Congress parties would form the next government at the Centre.
TRS leaders hope that the Federal Front will take a shape after the announcement of poll results.
